Introducing Astro Private Cloud: An Enterprise Orchestration & Scheduling Platform in Your Environment

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Astro Private Cloud. This release represents a fundamental shift in how enterprises deliver data orchestration at scale within their own infrastructure.

For data platform teams managing hundreds of Airflow deployments across several teams or applications, Astro Private Cloud delivers the governance, security, and operational efficiency needed to transform from reactive firefighting to proactive service delivery.

Why We’re Making This Change

Astro Private Cloud is the evolution of the Astronomer Software product, and reflects our commitment to helping enterprises run Airflow-as-a-service at scale on their own infrastructure.

Data platform teams no longer need to manage individual Airflow instances, they’re delivering a standardized orchestration and scheduling service to all teams across their enterprise. This shift required architectural changes that enable data platform teams to operate at enterprise scale while maintaining complete infrastructure control.

Architectural Evolution: Control Plane and Data Plane Separation

The cornerstone of Astro Private Cloud 1.0 is a new architecture that separates platform management from individual Airflow deployments, enabling centralized governance with complete tenant isolation.

Control Plane: Provides unified management for monitoring, logging, alerts, and system health across all Airflow deployments. Platform administrators govern the entire ecosystem from a single interface while applying enterprise policies consistently.

Data Planes: Deliver completely isolated Airflow environments for individual teams, regions, or use cases. Each data plane operates autonomously with dedicated resources, ensuring security boundaries and team independence.

This architecture solves a critical enterprise challenge: balancing centralized governance with team autonomy. Financial services organizations can now separate trading, risk, and compliance workflows while maintaining unified audit logging. Healthcare enterprises can isolate patient data processing environments while ensuring HIPAA compliance across all regions.

For complete technical specifications and deployment guides, visit our documentation.

What’s New in Astro Private Cloud 1.0

Control Plane and Data Plane Separation

Manage Airflow deployments across multiple clusters, regions, and clouds from a single installation. This enables:

• Centralized monitoring across all data planes with unified logging and alerting
• Complete deployment isolation ensuring teams operate independently without interference
• Consistent governance while maintaining team-level autonomy
• Global management of Airflow deployments reducing maintenance complexity.

Security Enhancements

Enterprise-grade security built for the most stringent requirements:

• CVE remediation SLAs.
• Air gapped installation support with private container registries and custom CA certificates
• Comprehensive audit logging
• External secret management

Apache Airflow 3 Support

Full compatibility with Apache Airflow 3 providing:

• Future-Ready Platform: Full compatibility with Airflow 3.0 features and performance improvements
• Enterprise Stability: Regular security and bug fixes
• Supported Upgrades: Migration path from Airflow 2.x with minimal operational disruption
• Enhanced Performance: Provider package optimizations and UI improvements purpose-built for enterprise scale

Modern UI

The new interface delivers:

• Single pane of glass to manage deployments across multiple data plane clusters
• Centralized monitoring of data plane metrics and system health
• Integrated identity management with users and groups synchronized from enterprise systems
• Streamlined operations for platform administrators and data engineers

Who It’s For

Astro Private Cloud is purpose-built for data platform teams at large enterprises managing multiple Airflow instances across their organization. Our customers include:

• Financial services institutions requiring air-gapped deployments with complete audit trails
• Healthcare organizations maintaining HIPAA compliance while enabling team autonomy
• Manufacturing enterprises coordinating supply chain, quality control, and production planning across hybrid cloud environments
• Government agencies operating in classified environments with stringent security requirements

If you’re managing Airflow across multiple teams and struggling with operational overhead, upgrade chaos, or compliance requirements that prevent cloud adoption, Astro Private Cloud delivers the enterprise framework to standardize your data orchestration.

What’s Next

Astro Private Cloud 1.0 is generally available starting October 14, 2025. We are committed to using this launch as the starting point for further enhancements. Our roadmap focuses on three key areas: enhanced security, advanced monitoring, and large-scale operations.

We’re committed to making Astro Private Cloud the definitive platform for enterprise Airflow-as-a-Service delivery - enabling data platform teams to deliver strategic value rather than reactive support.

Get Started

Existing Astronomer Software customers can upgrade to Astro Private Cloud 1.0 with the upgrade process documentation. New customers can contact our sales team to discuss deployment options and pricing.